The Festival of Words has become a spectacle of style, tone, expression, and emotion that immerses the audience in a world of elegance and confidence.
For the duration of an evening, brilliant actors perpetuate the oral tradition of storytellers from the past by bringing words to life through their talent.
The program includes readings of major works from the global literary heritage. The most renowned writers are celebrated, most of whom are world-renowned. Foreign authors, of course, such as Rudyard Kipling and Fitzgerald, but also French authors from across the ages like Voltaire, Maupassant, Jules Verne, for the classics, and contemporary authors like Didier Van Cauwelaert and Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio.
The Festival of Words allows, through moments of grace, where literature is carried by the voices of the actors, to travel in space and time, beyond borders, to the limits of the imagination…
From South America (Voyage of Louis Jouvet) to the Orient (The Thousand and One Nights), from the Indian jungle (The Jungle Book) to the four corners of the globe (Around the World in 80 Days), a journey to the heart of great literature is offered.
The Festival was inaugurated last night in Saint-Martin-Vésubie with the reading by Clotilde Courau and Lionel Suarez of “The Mountain of the Living God,” a short story by JMG Le Clézio.
Seven years ago, Clotilde Courau and accordionist Lionel Suarez united in creating “Piaf, the Intimate Being.” Today, they return to the origins of their meeting and offer musical readings. Two skills, two complementary expertise, provide a shared, singular, and moving vision.
Friday, July 16 at 9:00 PM: Breil-sur-Roya – Tent, School Parking – Irène Jacob and Jérôme Kircher read “Around the World in 80 Days” by Jules Verne,
Wednesday, July 21 at 9:00 PM: Peille – Place Albert II of Monaco – Anny Duperey reads “Voyage in Friendship” Reading of Colette’s correspondence with Marguerite Moreno,
Saturday, July 24 at 9:00 PM: Carros – Villa Barbary of Carros village (amphitheater) – Patrick Chesnais reads “The Tales of the Bécasse” by Guy de Maupassant and other burlesque and humorous texts,
Sunday, July 25 at 9:00 PM: Mougins – Place des Patriotes – Mathilda May reads “A One-Way Ticket” by Didier Van Cauwelaert,
Saturday, July 31 at 9:00 PM: Tourrettes-sur-Loup – La Bastide aux Violettes – Frédéric Diefenthal presents “An Initiatic Adventure with the Father” based on his own readings,
Thursday, August 5 at 8:30 PM: Bonson – Place Maurice Scoffier – Anne Parillaud reads “The Travels of Candide” based on the work of Voltaire,
Saturday, August 7 at 9:00 PM: Roquebrune Cap-Martin – Parc du Cap Martin – Avenue Paul Doumer, Andréa Ferréol reads “The Tales of the Thousand and One Nights”,
Monday, August 9 at 9:00 PM: Cap D’Ail – Château des Terrasses – Francis Huster presents a theatrical adventure, “All For Her” reading tribute to Louis Jouvet,
Wednesday, August 11 at 8:30 PM: Puget-Théniers – Place de l’Église – Marc Jolivet reads “The Jungle Book” – Rudyard Kipling,
Tuesday, August 17 at 9:00 PM: Villeneuve-Loubet – Garden of the Auguste Escoffier Cultural Center – Robin Renucci reads “The First Man” by Albert Camus,
Friday, August 20 at 6:00 PM: Valberg – The Gardens of Mercantour – Thierry Lhermitte reads “Flowers of the Sun” based on the work of Simon Wiesenthal,
Saturday, August 21 at 8:30 PM: Auribeau-sur-Siagne – Courtyard of the Old School – Denis Podalydès reads “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” by Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
